Poverty Quotes · Page 84

“It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

— Zora Neale Hurston

A poor nation, but with rich politicians, shows the exceptional care of the latter for the ruling people!

— Mariana Fulger

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

— Aneurin Bevan

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

— Euripides

“You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

— Juvenal

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and…

— Alice Childress

“You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to…

— Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes you do not see white faces when you think of poverty. That leads to lots of stigmas, systemic racism and all…

— Stephanie Land

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair…

— Bill Gates

“It doesn’t matter what your area of calling is, if you could invest quality time in it, then, you will be sure…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have…

— Seneca

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other…

— Osamu Dazai

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have…

— Charlotte Bronte

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls…

— Albert Camus

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the…

— Thurgood Marshall

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— Bertrand Russell

We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a…

— Napoleon Hill

Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Poverty’s a chilly theme,” he said; “let’s take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.”

— John Meade Falkner

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

— Juvenal

“One must run his life and set himself apart to do that which he was born to do.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

— Kevin de Leon

Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.

— Emile Coue

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

— May Sarton

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

— Bill Cosby

One thing poor people never have to worry about... going broke!

— Cj Phillips

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

— John Calipari

“The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

— Dustin Poirier

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

— Denis Diderot

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

— Timothy Keller

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

— Doug Wead

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal…

— Jonathan Swift